The Imperative of Cybersecurity during the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Landry Signé · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023
Chapter 9 explores the overall risk of cybersecurity and cybersecurity resilience on the African continent. Africa ranks low on the 2018 International Telecommunication Union’s Global Cybersecurity Insecurity and the continent scores lowest of all regions in the five pillars: legal, technical, organizational, capacity building, and cooperation. With the rise of 4IR technologies, the importance of a national infrastructure is critical in evading cyber-attacks. This chapter goes on to explain how cyber disruptions impact different sectors and civil society.